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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Lowdown on Napoli, the strength of Serie A, and why it's a different Klopp and Liverpool returning to Naples

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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News, Sports, Soccer, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Liverpool are back in Champions League action tonight when they travel to Italy to take on last season's Serie A runners-up Napoli - and we have a packed Preview podcast to look ahead to the big match.We kick off by speaking to our Liverpool FC correspondent James Pearce, who talks the club's and Jurgen Klopp's last visit to the Stadio San Paulo, whether the Reds boss will ring the changes with a massive Premier League match with Manchester City to come on Sunday, and why the locals don’t seem to be taking to Carlo Ancelotti.Ancelotti took over Napoli in the summer after Maurizio Sarri left for Chelsea and we get the thoughts of Marco Giordano, a presenter for CalcioNapoli24.it, on how the ex-Chelsea boss is doing and where the main strengths and weaknesses lie in his line-up.And the podcast rounds off with a chat to Italian football expert John Solano, who we first caught up with in the summer as Alisson Becker prepared to make his move from Roma to Liverpool.As well as Alisson and Napoli, John talks Mohamed Salah, the current strength of Serie A, and the interesting reason why he believes the league still has some way to go before it gets back to its 1990s heyday.It's a really good listen. Enjoy. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

0:08.0

Hello, my name is Paul Wielock and welcome to the preview podcast to look ahead to

0:13.0

Liverpool's Champions League clash with Napoli. James Pierce is in Naples to

0:17.2

cover the match for the echo this evening and I spoke to our Liverpool FC

0:20.8

correspondent Before Yurgen Clops press conference last night.

0:24.4

We taught Clops and Liverpool's last visits to the Stadio San Paolo, whether the Red Sposs

0:28.7

will ring the changes with a massive Premier League match at Manchester City to come on Sunday and why the locals don't

0:34.7

seem to be taking to Carlo Anchelotti.

0:37.0

Anchelotti took over Napoli in the summer after the Mericio Sali left to take charge of Chelsea and I found out how the manager Liverpool

0:44.6

of both defeated and lost to in Champions League finals is getting on with Naples

0:48.9

based journalist Marco Giordano. I also spoke to Italian football expert John Solano about Napoli, Allison Becker,

0:56.2

Mohammed Sala and to take a broader look at the current strength of Celia.

1:00.0

But we'll start by hearing from James Pierce.

1:04.0

Anfield Plus podcast from the Liverpool Echo.

1:08.0

Well, hi James, thanks for joining me from Naples before Yergen Club's pre-match press conference.

1:14.0

How is it over there?

1:16.0

Hi Paul, yeah, it's been a warm, pleasant afternoon actually in Naples.

1:22.0

Yeah, just sort of a first trip to the Stadio, Sam Paola and it's very quiet and empty at the moment, but I think it's fair to say it'll be very different come Wednesday night because you know this is well known as one of the

1:37.6

most hostile environments in in European football and yeah you can you can see even though it's empty at the moment you

1:46.0

it's you can you can imagine what it's what it's gonna feel like come kick off a Wednesday.

1:52.0

Yeah I've been really one of your pieces on the website today about

1:55.0

Yurkin Clops, last visit to the ground.

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